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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13528	The beavvties of Beth-el Containing: sundry reasons why euery Christian ought to account one day in the courtes of God, better then a thousand besides. Preached in Cambridge, and now published especially for the benefite of those that were the hearers.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1609 (1609)	STC 23820; ESTC S107524	54,350	140

is the Mother of vs all And of Sion is it sayd that many are borne in her And this last was not the least motiue which stirred in our holy Prophet these instant desires The Lord is grace and glory not onely because the Lord is the glory of his people here and hereafter Nor that onely in the Church the Lord reueileth his glorie but also because he leadeth his children vnto it by the meanes there by his wisdome appointed Now considering the places whereon our feete stand are holy ground the persons present holy and glorious the duties performed holy and spirituall the priuiledges of Gods people so preacious and aboundant in all these regardes can we doe lesse then wish our portions and shares in them and doth it not now seeme a most reasonable and religious wish to spend if it were but one day here rather then a thousand else-where or shall wee still neede many goads to prouoke vs to loue or rejoyce in Ierusalem where wee may thus suck and bee satisfied with the brest of her consolation where wee may milke out and bee delighted with the brightnesse of her glory If wee would haue our hearts iustifie vs in this holy reioysing our labour must bee to see dayly further into these beauties of Gods house which may rauish our hearts with the loue of it aboue all other places in the earth The Scriptures not in a few places aduanceth and highly extolleth such assemblies as wherein God and his people are mette together to the former purposes and all that our hearts and affections might bee mooued to enquire and finde out such excellencies here as the mouth of the Lord himselfe hath so frequently recommended vnto vs. The Prophet Isay saith that the house of the Lord is prepared in the top of the mountaines and exalted aboue the hills Which place may receiue some light by that comparison which the Prophet Dauid maketh betweene Mount Sion and mount Basan and many other great hills Why hoppe yee so yee hills this is Gods hill By Mountaines are meant the greatest Empires and most flourishing Kingdomes of the earth abounding with wealth and power which all in Basan are made inferiour to Sion not that either in spaciousnesse of ground or multitude or goodnesse of people or strength or riches or outward pompe and glory Sion was comparable to any of them for the kingdome of Israell was the least and fewest and as badde and wicked as any people vnder heauen It was bounded and shutte vppe in a small modell and compasse of ground and for strength and power came farre short of the great kingdomes of Assyria Aegipt c. How then was it so aduanced and exalted aboue the mountaines surely herein This is Gods hill and so made high aboue all nations in praise name and glory Gods dwelling in it was the wealth strength and beauty yea I adde the blessednesse of it for blessed is that land whose God is the Lord. Thus also was Capernaum said to be lifted vp vnto heauen onely in regarde of the presence doctrine and miracles of Christ. So in our Bethels God himselfe is the beauty and glory of euery of them his administration here farre excelling Salomon in all wisdome the owner of it being the true Salomon the God of Israel who as a great housholder out of his goodnesse fostereth out of his wisdome teacheth out of his power ruleth and out of his rich mercy tendreth the complaints and requests of euery one within his gates In this house all the houshould seruants haue one liuery and garment the righteousnesse of Christ to cloath them all feed at the selfe same table and eate childrens bread all haue one elder brother Iesus Christ the first borne of many brethren all haue one sort of seruants the Angels who not onely goe before them and at their heeles but as a guard are pitched about them all haue one inheritance and become heyres and fellow heyres with Christ himselfe The wisdome glory of which whole administration if we could as well behold as the Queene of Seba did the orders in Salomons Court we could not but account them blessed that might here be admitted into place of seruice to heare the wisdome of the King of glory and Prince of peace who dwelleth within these euerlasting doores Which heauenly delights while men know not no maruaile if they affect them not But on the contrary one comming to behold them in any euidence as little maruaile is it if with Dauid they would enioy them with exchange of all earthly pleasures For who is it which hath neuer so little tasted of the goodnesse of God that loues not the Lords habitation and the place where his honor dwelleth yee that thirsteth not after God and his presence as the Hart brayeth after the riuers of water Secondly if our hearts bee sound in this reioysing then can wee not but in heart and affection ioyne our selues vpon all good occasions vnto the Church of God in her meetings as such as would pertake of her priuiledges for this is a note of a conuerted person The beleeuers continued in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread and prayers And if such multitudes of sundrie sortes of people and such as could not finde their names in the genealogie came out of Aegipt and out of Babilon with the Israelites onely because they saw GODS blessing following that people How much more should wee bee prouoked to ioyne our selues to such societies as are assembled to worshippe him in spirit and truth seeing it is not any temporall blessing which runnes into our eye but spirituall and eternall neither any out-warde priuiledge which wee alone may make account of as they but such as is inwarde and heauenly yea such as rayseth vs vnto the condition of the sonnes of the liuing God But those mens hearts are not right within them that neede but the wagging of a strawe to keepe them from Church much lesse of those who place their felicitie in turning away from GOD from his ordinances and the place of his true worshippe what-so-euer their pretences may bee And heere it shall not bee amisse to meete with some of them especially such as are scarcely to be mette with-all euen there where some writers haue to verye fruitefull purpose set them-selues to answere the most obiections of this kinde 1. And first to admonish such as neede no other thing then theyr owne wilfulnesse to excommunicate and banish them-selues from the house of God and assemblies of the faithfull Of these the first sorte professe themselues touched with zeale of the glory of GOD they haue obserued the wilde beast of the Forrest to haue broken downe our hedge throwne our pale to the ground and with a prophane foote troden downe and rooted vp all our holy things they see no beauty but all deformity and nakednesse in our Churches which yet they